The meeting between the two leaders took place on the sidelines of the ASEAN-India Defence Ministers' Informal Meeting in Kuala Lumpur.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Friday signed an agreement on the framework for the US-India Major Defence Partnership in Kuala Lumpur, ahead of the ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting-Plus (ADMM-Plus), scheduled to take place on November 1.

“This will usher in a new era in our already strong defence partnership,” Rajnath Singh said in a post on X.

“This Defence Framework will provide policy direction to the entire spectrum of the India-US Defence Relationship. It is a signal of our growing strategic convergence and will herald a new decade of partnership,” Rajnath Singh added in the post.

“Defence will remain as a m

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